terraform-aws-secure-baseline v2.1 releases: set up your AWS account with the reasonably secure configuration baseline

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aws-security-benchmark

terraform-aws-secure-baseline

A terraform module to set up your AWS account with the reasonably secure configuration baseline. Most configurations are based on CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations v1.2.0.

See Benchmark Compliance to check which items in the CIS benchmark are covered.

aws-security-benchmark

Features

Identity and Access Management

  • Set up the IAM Password Policy.
  • Creates separated IAM roles for defining privileges and assigning them to entities such as IAM users and groups.
  • Creates an IAM role for contacting AWS support for incident handling.
  • Enable AWS Config rules to audit root account status.

Logging & Monitoring

  • Enable CloudTrail in all regions and deliver events to CloudWatch Logs.
  • CloudTrail logs are encrypted using the AWS Key Management Service.
  • All logs are stored in the S3 bucket with access logging enabled.
  • Logs are automatically archived into Amazon Glacier after the given period(defaults to 90 days).
  • Set up CloudWatch alarms to notify you when critical changes happen in your AWS account.
  • Enable AWS Config in all regions to automatically take configuration snapshots.
  • Enable SecurityHub and subscribe to CIS benchmark standard.

Networking

  • Remove all rules associated with default route tables, default network ACLs and default security groups in the default VPC in all regions.
  • Enable AWS Config rules to audit unrestricted common ports in Security Group rules.
  • Enable VPC Flow Logs with the default VPC in all regions.
  • Enable GuardDuty in all regions.

Changelog v2.1

Features

  • enable CIS benchmark v1.4.0 standard (#308) (bb724cd)
  • make audit log bucket access logs bucket name customizable (#303) (07dc101)

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